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Almost 100 years ago, four men wrote a letter while on their way to war in Europe. They sealed the letter in a bottle and tossed it overboard off the coast of Western Australia. Twenty years later it was found, but it was only recently discovered that the bottle has links to Ballarat. ...

The former chief of Australia's defence forces Peter Cosgrove is fronting a campaign to get people to dawn services on Anzac Day. The Raise A Glass campaign encourages people to organise a wake-up call from the retired general and is run by Australia's largest brewery. ...

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Experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons will begin tests on the chemical used in an attack against a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain. Britain says the substance was Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent developed by the former Soviet Union for use ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, , has seen better days. Historian and military analyst, Andrew Bacevich, once described it as an organisation that privileges nostalgia over self-awareness. But most critics, Bacevich included, want NATO refocused and retooled. So what needs to ...